Our 7337 tape library is serial # 10-4576B. I called it in (reference # 31 TP LQ 3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 9, 2003 Some 7337 things I learned. See my w3/~jasper/7337Notes.html, which I stole from http://www.gruftie.net/ibm/tl/techlib/qna/sfam/html/FB/FB5197L.htm. Tape slots are 0-9 in the front, 10-14 in the back, left-to-right. The left-hand tape drive is numbered 116, is drive A, rmt0, SCSI ID 4. The right-hand tape drive is numbered 117, is drive B, rmt1, SCSI ID 5. The /dev/smc0 is the "IBM 7337 Tape Medium Changer" and is SCSI ID 6. IBM has a tapeutil command that can be used to manipulate the tape library. To load a tape from slot 11 to drive A, tapeutil -f/dev/smc0 move -s 11 -d 116 And to put it back, you need to first unload it, then move it back tapeutil -f/dev/rmt0 unload <=== Note this is rmt0, not smc0! tapeutil -f/dev/smc0 move -s 116 -d 11 There's also another device associated with the 7337, and that is /dev/lb0. This is created by going through "smitty devices" "Tivoli Storage Manager Devices" "Library/MediumChanger" "Add a Library/MediumChanger" There's only one "Library/MediumChanger Type", and that is "ADSM-SCSI-LB". On reindeer, the 7337 is attached to vscs1 (00-02-01). The "CONNECTION address" is typically "6,0". Under the covers, this does the following mkdev command, mkdev -c library -t 'ADSM-SCSI-LB' -s 'scsi' -p 'vscsi1' -w '6,0' Today though, I was getting this error message trying to recreate /dev/lb0: Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd): 0514-047 Cannot access a device. cfgadsmdd[get_i]: ioctl SCIO(L)START failed, errno = 22 cfgadsmdd[inq..]: free dds. cfgadsmdd[main ]: error inquiry or building dds,rc=47 But I upgraded AIX to ML11 and reinstalled the latest Atape driver, and then above the mkdev command worked, so now I had a /dev/lb0. But then the power went out and when it came back, lb0 was gone. Now when I do the mkdev, I get a slightly different error message, Method error (/etc/methods/cfgadsmdd): 0514-047 Cannot access a device. cfgadsmdd[get_i]: ioctl SCIO(L)INQU first call failed, retry if possible, errno = 19 cfgadsmdd[inq..]: free dds. cfgadsmdd[main ]: error inquiry or building dds,rc=47 But later it worked.